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<h2>Theory of Change</h2>
<p>With a population of more than 1.2 billion, India has about 68% of its people living in rural
areas. And nearly all of these rural areas lack facilities to support high standards of life for
these people. The pace of the development of social sector has been slow, in spite of the fact
that continuous efforts are put in by the government by the means of five year plans, schemes

for rural employment and development, social Ventures, NGOs and corporate. Considering the
amount of input labor the results are far from expected.</p>

<p>Then a good question to ask is "What could scale ongoing efforts in RURAL Development".There
are so many good ideas and enterprises started in this direction, but scale up is far seen.What
is limiting this scale up when there are good ideas? Two important dimensions to this problem
other than the model itself are the intensive OPERATIONS using local rural entrepreneurs and
INFORMATION for right site and customer segmentation for running multiple pilots.</p>

<p>If we focus on these two sets - Operations and Information, then we can quickly build
connection with Scale (Volume) and Distributed Nodes (reachability) issues to address the
above problem. Students by their very high numbers and distribution across nation provide
a potential new stream of resource to address this massive social issue. But then there
arise the question of channelizing this massive effort for concrete & credible deliverables
amidst their need to balance this role with their academics. There is need for each school,
college and university to form a social student body to be the change makers in their
neighbourhood. But these individual NODES then need to be tied with a good BACK-END that
can coordinate, link and support all these efforts to bring the much needed scale and speed to
Rural Development.</p>

<p>RENAISSANCE is such a collaborative Back End that aims to achieve the above goal. It aims
to channelize student force for gap identification at village level and establishing appropriate
linkages with existing good social organizations and other stake holders to design and
implement solutions and monitor performance. Students have more a role as 'Sensors' in this
Feedback Control System both at the input and output sides of this MIMO (Multiple Input
and Multiple Output) controller - at input side for problem identification with appropriate
correlations and proper packaging and marketing to various controlling agencies; at output side
for monitoring and sensing performance and feeding back to the controllers.</p>

<p>The annual events hosted at different institute each year is an effort in the same direction, so
that student groups from diverse areas of the country interact with each other and we believe
that as the network grows stronger, our vision shall be achieved.</p>
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